Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is a Rohingya nationalist insurgent group in Rakhine State, Myanmar that was founded in October 2016. The ARSA was led by a committee of Rohingya emigres in Saudi Arabia, with Ata Ullah serving as the overall commander of the group. The ARSA sought to establish a democratic Muslim state for the Rohingya, and the Burmese government suspected the ARSA of having financial ties to foreign Islamist groups. In 2016, the ARSA had around 500 fighters.